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Fashus Much like every other human, of any demographic you choose, if they are Liberal, even if they are honest, their mind can get stuck on certain things. Much like Dave Rubin, my friend is both honest and generally conservative, tho not very ideological or political, and even he has problems imagining a government without a safety net. It rarely has to do with race or genetics.

Thank you Lorry I sincerely did not recognize where Fashus was going with that list. I don’t know all those people’s genetic heritage. Yes, Sam is a Jew, but I never heard anything by him that indicates that he has an in group preference for other Jews. I would say the same for Ben Shapiro even tho Ben is very religious, while Sam isn’t. lucius the only thing I can say is, the brain’s ability to backup to foolish accepted premises is incredibly redundant. Wanna see Harris/Murray soon I have a friend who is aware of the problems of Welfare, recognizes the negative motivations, but can’t seem to wrap his mind around a world without Welfare. Dave Rubin seems stuck on the same point despite the obvious awareness, visible recognition of how deterimental it is.

God doesn’t substitute free will. And I guess the pagan pantheisms didn’t substitute determinism.

Isn’t the universe inanimate? Wasn’t the universe created? Isn’t the creator of the universe, the creator of everything inside? Isnt our Solar system created from the rubble of a star, UberSun, that died and exploded billions of years ago? Didn’t that star create everything we need for life, the Sun, the Earth, the moon... our uranium fused in that final explosion, our planet’s iron core... Our carbon and oxygen It’s earlier exhalations. The universe is too big to care for us. It doesn’t even know we exist.

Alrightt I think you were speaking to me in your first post. The Garden story seems to indicate a “chose your own story” option. God knew both story branches that he presented to man and he knew which branch man would choose due to God’s insulation from the limits of time, but God didn’t make that choice for man. It would be hard to know or describe what the world would be like had we not violated the command, but even a naturalist view combined with a true psychological insight into man’s nature might be able to explain how if man were more accepting of limitations, the same environment in which man must toil to work the soil to get food and in which thisels and thorns grow, would not be a curse, but accepted as normal by a man with a more accepting nature. Would this more accepting man innovate? Seek to change his environment to better suit people? Was the Fall a better option for man? Does God prefer Fallen men who seek him out to unFallen men who know him? I don’t know.

esch About my feelings of loneliness. I don’t see loneliness as a problem, but more as a symptom of a different problem. I value a relationship with a good woman. I want to give to others and I have concluded long ago, a family/children is the best environment for that desire to give. I have volunteered my time in the past and continue to volunteer when I can. Sometimes my time and effort is appreciated, sometimes not. Sometimes I am told I am not needed, sometimes it is implied. I enjoy working hard, and have had jobs where certain work needed to get done and I stayed late and worked really hard to complete the work and felt indispensable even tho my bosses didn’t always feel that way or express the same, it still created happiness and purpose for me. I would love to be able to independently generate that feeling of completion and perhaps sometimes I do here, reading economics, philosophy, etc. I think now I have read every word above, and I appreciate everybody’s contributions.

Barn Lots to chew on. If you recall, you have commented on my post Finding a Job in Misc section. It may make sense to segregate these two subjects despite a certain amount of crossover and intermingleness. Passivity sounds like something I need to work on. I am capable of explaining myself successfully without questions and clarification, but it seems that many of my attempts at communication revert more to the reverse. I know my ability to handle complex 3D interacting parts, even in comparison to other engineers, but I find words and sentences daunting and sometimes what I try to communicate isn’t always clear to others (ambiguity on my part, etc.) thanks, didn’t know about the follow option. I have been following manually.

Julia Most gals don’t get to know me. I have friends who know how hard working I am. My past performance, or my current status is often all they feel they need to project my future earnings. I don’t fault them for it, seems logical to me. Smart In today’s world which gal isn’t career oriented? I know a kindergarten teacher who is fairly picky. Rich LoL, categorizing men is hard, but I definitely think PJ Watson is higher, and Milo lower. Much higher than Alex Jones :’D Hard to be objective but I think I’m higher than Mike Cernovich. I’m 6 foot, broad shoulders, muscular but not bulky, I’m definitely the type for some gals. A few times I’ve noticed gals noticing me, but I know I can be oblivious often too. One gal in college was crushing on me hard, really pretty too, but I never noticed, a friend mentioned it to me once after college and we had a laugh when I said I didn’t notice. I go to social gatherings as often as possible. Some have hefty door charges and serve free drinks, but I don’t drink and have little disposable income. At one free event, I just walked up to a gal and had a great conversation, she was very into me at the time, now she doesn’t want to date. I don’t know what the reason is with this gal. It may be financial, but I can’t confirm, “not her type” is all I got. Match makers it’s all about the dollar bills y’all. The gals are free to ask her what my financials are like and they share that freely and turned around and told me the gals don’t want to marry someone poor. Often friends who want to set me up, say they know a nice gal but she is picky about money. A friend is now trying to set me up with a gal, he promises she doesn’t care about money. We will see.

Late 20s-mid 30s, 7-8 tho currently losing a few extra pounds.

I feel lonely because despite some really nice friends, who are often busy but do take time to meet and chat with me, I go home alone. The loneliness isn’t daunting every night, but cumulatively it is troubling and sometimes it is daunting. I know a few women who grew up poor and they seem to be the least embarrassed and the most transparent in their desire for financial standing. The rest are verbal enough to clothe their desire in terms like ambitious, professional, stable, etc. I’m nearing my 40th birthday and I want kids. I’ve been poor my whole life.

Aware of that, doesn’t help me as I get older, all alone, I am now suffering depression.

Winter solstice, summer solstice, first day of spring, first day of fall, Memorial, Veteran’s, July 4th, Thanksgiving, Arbor Day...

Ok, then save up the money to buy a house outright. the reality, most people can buy a house with a mortgage and live in the house for 15-30yrs paying slightly more than rent on day 1, and a few yrs later the mortgage is less than rent. If you got a raise in the interim and have no other debt or tax benefit, you can start paying off the capital by year 5 and pay it off faster*. If you plan to do this, make sure the bank understands this and won’t charge you interest on money you paid back.

I find purpose in working as an engineer. The income is fairly good too. Gals I know turn down a first date when they hear I’m not a well paid professional.

I recall hearing Dr. Peterson describing the need for a goal. That striving for something valuable that makes life worth living. I myself struggle for the same, my situation not being what I want despite attempts to get out. Still at uni? Perhaps they have counseling there.

I have a friend who doesn’t like talking about abstract ideas and he isn’t dumb, but otherwise I’ve never met anyone who couldn’t.

Statistically bad behavior is due to bad parenting, individuals still have free will. 85% of people in jail come from a single parent home. Raising children comes with a two part disclaimer: You will make mistakes as a parent and despite how few mistakes you make, your child has the free will to make bad choices.

On genetic memory: It seems birds learn to migrate in a flock. But cats seem to react to fake snakes that they have never seem. Check out cat cucumber on YouTube.

RichardY losing belief in yourself? Isn’t that Nihilism? If someone born today would be immortal, he/she would still be finite, as they have a starting point. Limited brain capacity, limited sensory observation...

I think I would fine with saving and investing a near infinite amount of money. Can you explain what has happened in the US? Inflation has been fairly consistent, 4%/year over the long term (until Obama was elected, his first act as president was to get how inflation was measured changed so he could hide the destructiveness of his policies)

I appreciate I either haven’t done enough to get hired or the world is rule by such random chance that someone who tries won’t get hired. The big question isn’t what bothers me. It is the lack of income, purpose, companionship. i appreciate the challenge, you are the first to try, I have challenged myself too over the years. I haven’t figured it out yet. Any advice?

Smarter, whether you agree or not on the modern perspective on sodomy, it used to be illegal in all states and no one thought it would ever need to be decriminalized.

I used to post it to twitter a couple times every week, but never got anywhere with it.

Architecture is crap. Cathedrals were the greatest sink of wealthy, impoverished the poor, contributed to the death of millions, babies were buried in the foundations of all the “great” public works of yesteryear (figuratively if not literally).

I have a website for some ideas, but I doubt more than a person or two sees it.